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Quilting books offer an excellent medium with which you can add to or improve your quilting skills. Listed below are books that will amaze, inspire and stimulate your creativity and enhance your quilting experience!
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Karen K. Stone Quilts by Karen Stone.
Karen K. Stone dazzling quilts have won awards, magazine covers, and fans for a decade. At last, you can learn how Karen does it and how you can too.
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Karen K. Stone Quilts EQ5 Projects & Pallets by Karen Stone.
Karen K. Stone's dazzling quilts have won awards and a legion of Fans. Quilters who can't get enough of Karen's innovative takes on tradition and riotous fabric combinations can now design with Karen's blocks! This CD includes 10 EQ5 projects of Karen's most popular quilts. Now you can print foundation patterns and color with a new Fabric Library of Fabrics chosen to mimic Karen's unique style. If you loved the book Karen Stone Quilts, this is the CD for you! Use these ready-made projects just as Karen designed them, or use the quilts as a starting point for your own scrappy designs. Print the patterns and start sewing. Or spend hours recoloring and redesigning until you've made the quilt your own. You won't believe your eyes when you see how many fabrics appear in your Fabric Library! ![]() ![]() Print foundation patterns, yardage estimates, and color pictures of the blocks and quilts. |
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Open a Can of Worms by Debbie Caffrey.
What is a worm? A worm is a strip of fabric that is two and a half inches wide. How did I happen to come to that definition? Well, once I began to slice and dice these strips, the quilts just wouldn't stop coming! I felt that I had truly "opened a can of worms." Sew dozens of beautiful, scrappy quilts simply and very quickly. Start cutting 2 1/2" wide strips now! |
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Sugar Sack Quilts by Glenna Hailey. 12 Quilts Using Vintage or Reproduction Fabrics
In their hayday between the 1930s and 1960s, colorful textile feedsacks offered an economical way for women to brighten their lives. Quilters and home-sewers scrambled to the feed store to get the prettiest sacks to turn into dresses, quilts and household items. Sugar Sack Quilts celebrates this delightful and resourceful art form. More than reproductions of old patterns, the quilts featured here are original designs that retain that cozy, old-fashioned charm.
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Serge & Merge Quilts by Sharon V. Rotz.
Serge your way to speedier, snazzier quilts! There are things a serger can do for your quilts that an ordinary sewing machine cannot, and - with this book as your guide - you don't have to be an expert at serging (or quiltmaking!) to get great results. Sharon Rotz is here to show you how to use standard serging stitches to neatly construct and creatively embellish quilts - from old-fashioned scrap quilts to sophisticated wall-hangings. Inside, you'll find everything you need to explore this fun new twist on quiltmaking:
Includes a bonus DVD hosted by Nancy Zieman showing you all the techniques in action! |
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Joanie's Design Elements by Joanie Zeier Poole. 8 Easy Lessons to Adapt
and Use Quilting Designs
Unique quilting designs made easy using an innovative approach from award-winning designer Joanie Zeier Poole. In eight easy lessons, learn the fundamentals of creating your own quilting designs with confidence. Learn how to:
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The Farmer's Wife Sampler Quilt by Laurie Aaron Hird.
In 1922, The Farmer's Wife magazine posed this question to their readers: "If you had a daughter of marriageable age, would you, in light of your own experience, have her marry a farmer?" The magazine at that time had 750,000 subscribers, and received over 7,000 letters. The best answers to this question are included in this book, along with the traditional quilt blocks they inspired. Laurie Aaron Hird provides everything you need to be inspired and create your own sampler quilt:
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Kaffe Fassett's Quilt Romance. 20 Designs from Rowan for Patchwork and Quilting.
Take a journey back in time with Kaffe Fassett's latest collection of glorious original quilt patterns. Kaffe Fassett's Quilt Romance beckons quilters of all skill levels and features the romance of a bygone era. The eleventh book in the series of best-selling quilt-pattern collections, this one is a study in fabulous pastels and sweet colorwork, featuring soft feathers and stripes, abstract geometrics, and playful twists on classic quilt motifs like Pickle Dish and Hearts and Flowers. Set against the dramatic Italianate architecture of a quaint Welsh village, the quilts represent Kaffe's lifelong fascination with color and nature. Based on his signature line of Rowan fabrics, the pieces have been designed by some of the world's most talented quilters, including Roberta Horton, Mary Mashuta, Liza Prior-Lucy, Pauline Smith, Brandon Mably, Sally Davis, Pam Dinndorf, and, introducing, Kim McLean, an Australian quilt designer. Each quilt is accompanied by a flat shot with detailed written instructions, colored piecing diagrams, and templates. Also included in the book is a special tips and techniques section. |
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24-Hour Baby Quilts by Leisure Arts.
You've just learned that your favorite aunt is about to have her first grandchild and you - as the only quilt maker in the family - will be expected to make a quilt for the baby shower next week. You'd love to do it, but the deadline looms for a quilt you're making for an international competition, you've promised to chaperone a soccer field trip, and you've volunteered to help with your church's bake sale. What to do now? This book is your answer because here are 20 delightful baby quilts you can make in less than 24 hours each! Choose your favorite quilt, get out your rotary cutter, your stash of fabric and your sewing machine. Then your follow our easy step-by-step instructions and in a few hours you'll have an adorable quilt completely finished! |
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Quiltmaking by Hand by Jinny Beyer.
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Mother Earth and Her Children by Sibylle von Olfers, Sieglinde Schoen Smith, and Jack Zipes. A Quilted Fairy Tale.
Deep below the ground, Mother Earth rouses her sleepy children. The little ones ready themselves for spring, then join a jubilant procession of bugs and beetles up into the summer meadows. With each colorful turn of the page, the children discover new surprises waiting just for them. In rhyming verse and vibrant illustrations, this enchanting story captivates the imagination of the youngest readers, gently leading them to make their own discoveries outdoors. |
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Mother Earth's ABC by Sieglinde Schoen Smith. A Quilter's Alphabet and Story Book.
Mother Earth's ABC is a wonderful way to introduce young children to the alphabet. It is also a unique inspiration for quilters wishing to embellish their pillows, quilts, or sewing projects with Sieglinde Schoen Smith's charming illustrated letters. Imagine a nursery layette embellished with Sieglinde's ABCs. Or sew your favorite child's name onto a birthday quilt or a cozy pillow. Children and parents alike will love this Springtime story that accompanies the letters. The youngest readers will delight in each tiny flower, ladybug, or woodland creature they meet from page to page. |